Evaluating 'No Child Left Behind'
Linda Darling-Hammond : The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
David Corn on George Tenet, Christopher Hayes on taxes, Thomas Palley on the flaws of Rubinomics.
Linda Darling-Hammond : The problems and promises of Bush's education policy.
Pedro Noguera, Velma L. Cobb & Deborah Meier : The second part of our forum on the Bush Administration's 2002 No Child Left Behind Act.
Thomas Palley : Economic policy centered on a balanced budget will destroy what's left of FDR's New Deal.
Christopher Hayes : Weary of tax cuts for the rich, state politicians are rethinking their aversion to tax-and-spend.
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Despite the Administration's crude and dishonest attacks on efforts to end the war, Congressional Democrats can't back down now.
David Corn : His new memoir proves how hard it is to tell the truth about oneself but how easy it is to blame others.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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Don't believe the glowing obituaries: Boris Yeltsin's legacy was to de-democratize Russia.
Jon Wiener : Alan Dershowitz is at it again, campaigning to deny tenure to a DePaul University professor who criticized him.
Ari Melber : Working For Us, a new coalition of unions and Internet activists, seeks to reform the Democratic Party from the ground up.
Lynn Randolph
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An apocalyptic vision of the Bush Administration, from Houston artist Lynn Randolph.
Roberto González Echevarría
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Communism, Catholicism and radical Modernism meet on the dissecting table of César Vallejo's poetry.
Russell Jacoby : In a new book on consumer culture, Benjamin Barber argues that commercialism encourages adults to behave like children.
Four previously unpublished poets are honored as winners of Discovery/The Nation '07, the annual Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prize of The Unterberg Poetry Center.
Calvin Trillin
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Sinking Tenet's "slam dunk."
Eric Alterman : Liberals prefer to ignore that when it comes to verbal violence, white radio shock jocks are given the same pass as gangsta rappers.
Annabelle Gurwitch : I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?
Robert Scheer : How else to explain why arrogant incompetents like Paul Wolfowitz rose to power in the Bush Administration?
Robert Greenwald : Mother's Day was originally conceived to recognize the power of women to be instruments of peace.
Barbara Ehrenreich : To qualify for charity, a homeless Austrian chimp has petitioned the courts to be granted human status. If he wins, expect a surge of humans going over to the other side.
Teresa Stack : Unless the US Postal Service reverses its steep increases in bulk-mailing rates to favor large corporate publishers, the future of small magazines is grim.
New York's Attorney General testifies on the student loan scandal.
William Brawner is 26 years old, HIV positive, and he is changing the way you look at AIDS.
Misleading directions steer Florida A&M students to two favored lenders.
Middle-class students can't afford private colleges.
Dave Zirin & Jeff Chang : There's a big difference between the misogynous hip-hop produced by big media and the hip-hop that moves a generation.
Ari Berman : How can Hillary Clinton maintain her populist credentials when Mark Penn, her chief pollster and campaign strategist, also represents the interests of some of America's largest corporations?
A new New Deal.
How pro-choice advocacy and birth activism go hand in hand.
Nicholas von Hoffman : All France was transfixed as presidential candidates conducted a passionate, freewheeling debate this week. Why are American debates so intentionally stupid?
Hip-hop has influenced nearly every art form today, but has it been able to liberate? Artists, musicians and intellectuals reflect on the past and the future of hip-hop.
A trio of Portland rappers put their boots to the ground and educate the next generation in the art of socially conscious hip-hop.
Cover design: Gene Case & Stephen Kling/Avenging Angels